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Chapter 10 - Noninvasive Measurement of Cardiac Output

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2020

By
Samuel Gilliland ,
Robert H. Thiele  and
Karsten Bartels
Edited by
Andrew B. Leibowitz  and
Suzan Uysal
Andrew B. Leibowitz
Affiliation:
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Suzan Uysal
Affiliation:
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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Summary

Since the combination of thermodilution with the balloon-tipped pulmonary arterial catheter by Swan and Ganz in the 1970s, researchers and clinicians have pursued the measurement and optimization of cardiac output to improve outcomes both in the operating room and the intensive care unit. Complications related to the invasiveness of this device have driven exploration of new methods to acquire the same information without the deleterious side effects, with mixed results. We will discuss several of these devices, the physical principles underlying their measurements, their relative accuracy compared to clinical and experimental standards, and clinical advantages and disadvantages of each device.

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Noninvasive cardiac outputthermodilutionbioimpedancebioreactancepulse contour analysisphotoplethysmographyultrasound-based
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Modern Monitoring in Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care , pp. 100 - 108
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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